6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Thought for the Day
6.50 Weather; programme news
6.55 South-East News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Jack de Manio and John Timpson
7.41 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Weather: programmenews
7.55 South-East News
and more of Today
8.48 Today's Papers
A short story by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM abridged and read by ROGER DELGADO
What qualities must the perfect parlourmaid have? For Richard Harenger , who refused to accept anything but the best. this indeed was a very knotty problem.
Behind the Scenes at the Zoo
At this time of year many families will be enjoying an afternoon out looking at the birds and animals. But how is a zoo run? How is its day-to-day routine carried on? The Living World visits Paignton Zoo in Devon to find out about the work which the visitor does not see.
...which meant originally Port Out Starboard Home, and indicated the position of your cabin if you were a VIP on P & O's run to Bombay. This began in 1842 and ended earlier this year.
Philip Howard reminds us of what life was like when the Empire was intact and P & O was the 'Dear and Slow,' the link with India and the East.
NEM p 15; To the name of our salvation (BBC HB 284); Psalm 111; 1 Thessalonians 5, vv 1-11 (NEB); 0 thou not made with hands (BBC HB 180)
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA led by WILLIAM HAND conducted by MICHAEL MOORES with DAVID AND MARIANNE DALMOUR
Introduced by PETER BARKER
by NORMAN SMITHSON and ALFRED BRADLEY
1 No you can'have another ice-cream. Just get on with your sand castle and stop complaining, we're here to enjoy ourselves ... '
Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Aldergrove Airport in N Ireland
(Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
12.55 Weather; programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Joey ond Uncle Ron by DOROTHY EDWARDS
with the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA led by WILLIAM HAND conducted by MICHAEL MOORES VALERIE TRYON (piano)
Produced by ALAN OWEN
by MARIAN CAMPBELL with 'A God who would do this to a baby ... to teach me a lesson, or bring me to my. senses, or punish me ... or whatever ... what sort of a God is that? '
Produced by Brian MILLER
2: The Rodgers and Hammerstein Partnership with Richard Rodgers himself, members of his family, AGNES DE MILLE, and ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT.
Narrator JOHN DUNN
Written by GEOFFROY MILLAIS Produced, with gramophone records, by MICHAEL BELL
by H. F. ELLIS
The hilarious experiences of Mr Wentworth during his many years at Burgrove Preparatory School throw some light on the forces militating against the composure and, indeed, the sanity of assistant masters.
1: Mr Wentworth gets the Bird abridged in five parts and read by Noel Iliff
With JOHN GABRIEL
Produced by MARGARET ETALL
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening including the latest news, the evening press, what's on tonight, the City, and the people and talking points of the day. Presented by William Hardcastle and Derek Cooper
5.50Weather; programmenews
5.55 South-East News
Jimmy Clilheroe in A Funny Thing Happened at the Fuir
With PETER SINCLAIR
PATRICIA BURKE , DANNY ROSS DIANA DAY, TONY MELODY
COLIN EDWYNN , JOHN GRAHAM Written by JAMES CASEY and FRANK ROSCOE
Produced by JAMES CASEY
(Sunday'sbroadcast: Radio 2)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views With MERYL O'KEEFFE
TONY BILBOW looks at the changing image of the Beatles
by Bernard Picton
Pamela Lloyd was having a bath. They went to call her for supper but they got no reply. Her husband climbed up and looked through the fanlight and saw her under the water. He smashed the door open and tried to revive her....
Produced by LORRAINE DAVIES (Repeated: Thursday, 3.0 pm)
A weekly programme about books and writers: introduced by KENNETH ALLSOP
EDWARD BLISHEN looks at recent thrillers including Jon Cleary 's latest, Helga's Web
DOUGLAS STUART on his book A Very Sheltered Life, the recollections of a BBC foreign correspondent and other new books including Stardom, a look at the Hollywood phenomenon, and Ikhnaton, an investigation into one of the great puzzles of Egyptian archaeology
Produced by ALAN HAYDOCK
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.45 pm)
A weekly look at the present plight and the future shape of town and country
Compiled and introduced by NICHOLAS TAYLOR
The Twilight Areas: why are the poor getting relatively poorerf
There are signs in our big cities of an American tendency towards concentrating the poorly off in certain areas, and the gap between rich and poor is actually increasing. What changes in housing should the new Government adopt to deal with this?
The programme includes HELENE MIDDLEWEEK , Pressure Co-ordinator of Shelter; PROFESSOR PETER TOWNSEND. Chairman of the Child Poverty Action Group; and ELIZABETH BURNEY of The Economist, author of Housing on Trial.
Produced by LEONIE COHN
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
An MP elected for the first time talks about the recent campaign and what he (or she) hopes the new Parliament will achieve.
The White Colt by DAVID ROOK read by PAUL ROGERS (7)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
